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Captain John Smith (1580–1631)
Smith, (Captain) John. The famous English adventurer and colonist; born in Willoughby, Lincolnshire, 1580; died in London, June 21, 1631. He was one of the founders of Virginia who in 1607 settled in Jamestown. His writings are: ‘A Map of Virginia,’ etc. (1612); ‘The Generall Historie of Virginia,’ etc. (1624); ‘Description of New England’; ‘An Accidence, or Pathway to Experience’; ‘A Sea Grammar’; ‘The True Travels of Captain John Smith.’